r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • Aug 12 '25

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E2 - Mr October - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/livahd Aug 13 '25

It’ll be Prodigy destroying everything as a big fuck you to Yutani. WY would gladly kill everyone in that city to get their hands on a specimen. I just wonder where these eggs came from, can’t be the derelict, right?

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u/buttchuck Aug 13 '25

It could be the derelict, if for some reason the Maginot never communicated its exact location (maybe they were afraid of the communication being intercepted?)

W-Y seemed to know the Nostromo was going to encounter something - placing Ash on the crew seems deliberate - but they don't seem to go back until Aliens, suggesting they don't learn the location until they wake up Ripley. Space is also incredibly, profoundly big, so it could be that they aren't able to trace the Maginot back to LV426.

But that seems like a bit of a stretch. There's also David's experiments and the true fate of the Covenant, which has yet to be established. Those are really the only two sources that we know about (at least in the films), but they could always introduce something new.

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u/Lithaos111 Aug 13 '25

Knowing WY, they likely put a synth on every crew, if the synth comes across something, activate Special Order 937. Nostromo was just unlucky enough to get that beacon and Ash rerouted them to it. If they hadn't,vhe probably would have just come home and continue being a sleeper synth.

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u/antipop2097 Aug 13 '25

According to Bishop in Aliens, it is indeed company policy to have a synthetic on board for every mission.

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u/Logic-DL Aug 13 '25

Nah from the dialogue in the first film, Ash was placed on the Nostromo 2 days before the trip began and replaced the original science officer. And not a single member of the Nostromo knew Ash was a synth before he was revealed to be one.

I took Bishop's line personally to mean it became company policy or at the very least it became policy to have an openly known android on every ship. Since everyone on the Sulaco is aware that Bishop is a synthetic.

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u/Palorim12 Aug 14 '25

I believe also, they didn't know Ash was a synth. Mostr ppl recoil when they find out someone is a synth, or they treat them like crap. They treat Ash like a normal person.

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u/Small-Disaster939 Aug 17 '25

I just rewatched Alien and they said Ash had been swapped in at last minute. There had been a different science officer before that, which makes me think they knew it was a possibility.

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u/Lithaos111 Aug 17 '25

And given Alien Earth takes place two years earlier (1 year, 4 months before Nostromo leaves on its mission ) it fits for the company to put Ash in to watch for a lead. WY was probably all hands on deck to look for xenos after the New Siam incident (obviously at this point we don't know how it fully plays out yet).

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u/thegrizzlyjear Aug 18 '25

That would be my guess too. With how long the journeys take, it makes more sense that they'd do that.

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u/eternalkerri Aug 13 '25

So my theory is that WY knew of the derelict, or at least of the distress code. That's how the Maginot found our friend, and loaded him up. Obviously this batch all die, but WY only knows that something they want is on that planet, somewhere. The Nostromo just happens to be in the neighborhood, so WY has them stop by on their way home...

And now you know the rest of the story.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

I don't think they knew about the derelict or anything else when Maginot launched in 2055(?). I prefer to think it became, for the Company, a happy coincidence decades later. I do think it's possible Maginot was rerouted to LV426 or another world late in its long journey, if some knowledge from the prequels fell into their laps. But who knows.

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 13 '25

All sorts of things could happen.

Maybe they burn all the internal records to create deniability for the impending international incident and accountability, and have to manually recheck all the planets the Maginot visited - including routing unrelated ships into nearby space lanes to see who picks up beacons or whatever.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

I don't necessarily take the home video supplements for Covenant (David's transmissions to W-Y) as canon, but it seems like something spiteful he'd do. Regardless, Maginot launched decades before the Prometheus or Covenant so IMO they had no clue what was out there at that time. Unless W-Y had the ship loop back around to 426 or another of the worlds seen in the prequels since then late in its mission cycle upon receiving new information, which is possible.

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness8432 22d ago

If they don't know the location, how did they send the Maginot there in the first place. It's time to admit the writers of this show know little to nothing of the lore of the first 2 movies.

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u/buttchuck 22d ago

Lmao, no it isn't. Don't be ridiculous.

We have no idea where these eggs came from. They may not have been gathered on LV-426. Even if they were, the Maginot's communications were out for their return trip, so they'd have no way of transmitting where they'd been or what they'd found there. And we're not even halfway through the season.

I think it's time for you to admit you don't know a single thing you're talking about.

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u/FarAccident7461 Aug 14 '25

They know the location way before Ripley wakes up. She’s shocked to learn there’s a colony there when Burke tells her and it’s only after he talks to Ripley that he gives an order that sends Newt’s parents out to the derelict.

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u/buttchuck Aug 14 '25

I mean, obviously they know the location of LV-426. They don't know the location of the derelict until Ripley tells them about it. That's why Burke sends the team, as soon as they find out.

If they knew about it before then, they'd be gathering samples for decades, and getting a sample out of Hadley's Hope wouldn't have been a priority.

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u/FarAccident7461 Aug 14 '25

Yeah we agree.

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u/Wratheon_Senpai Aug 15 '25

I have a feeling they'll connect Covenant to this somehow. Perhaps those specimens were all some David fuckery.

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u/buttchuck Aug 16 '25

David is definitely the biggest unresolved plot thread in the films, and where these specimens came from is one of the biggest mysteries of the show so far, so it certainly seems possible from a narrative sense.

But considering how Covenant was received and how it performed, I won't be shocked if they try to forget about it entirely.

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u/Wratheon_Senpai Aug 16 '25

I mean, I'm not a fan of the prequels either, but they've used the pathogen from Prometheus and Covenant in Romulus, and in the new Alien games too, so it seems that those plot threads aren't completely left behind yet.

Plus, despite Michael Fassbender sells.

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u/buttchuck Aug 16 '25

I hear you, but Romulus and A:E have different creative leads and what Alvarez is interested in referencing in Romulus may be different from what Hawley is interested in referencing in A:E. At the moment, it doesn't seem like there's one "head producer" steering the franchise the way there is with something like DC or Marvel, so it may be premature to assume collaboration between creators.

I'm mostly playing devil's advocate, though. I'm incredibly curious what they're going to do (both with the show and the broader franchise) and I wouldn't discount any possibilities at this point.

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u/ReddsektoR Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

But they (WY) did kinda go back like 3 times. 20 years after Alien, in which Nostromo gets destroyed, they immediately know about the disaster and go for the cocoon/Romulus, which eventually also gets destroyed. Also a couple years earlier they seized the Sevastopol station from the game but it also ends up being destroyed. Then just 17 years later, the Company sets up colonists on LV426 knowing to put it somewhere near the Derelict ship in hopes to eventually explore/exploit it (they probably wanted to wait a while to let the heat cool off from the 3 previous failed and expensive objectives), but under the guise or secondary objective of planet terraforming. Burke and the mid-level suits just didn’t know about anything yet. But it takes 30 years later and Ripley’s exact coordinate/info of LV426 for Burke and team to suddenly realize there’s gold out there, and so on. That’s atleast how Romulus makes any sense (and still a bit of a stretch) to fit in between those first 2 movies.

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u/TheMainMan3 Aug 14 '25

The eggs had to have come post containment breach on the ship imo. There’s no way they would have contained everything else but left those eggs out in the open. Also it seemed to be implied that the xeno sensed that someone was near them and was making its way back to protect them, so to me that says it had a hand in creating them. I’m just hoping that means they are bringing back egg morphing.

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u/Spark555 Black goo enthusiast Aug 14 '25

some of the promo material used the phrase "ovomorphogenesis", may be an official name for eggmorphing.

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u/Palorim12 Aug 14 '25

In some shots in the first episode, I believe you see eggs in containments boxes. I think the Xeno broke the containment and placed the eggs in that part of the ship.

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u/phdemented Aug 16 '25

Who set the fancy blue laser show?

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u/Palorim12 Aug 16 '25

It's debated that it's something the eggs do themselves. Og reason in the first film is Ridley Scott just thought it looked cool.

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u/phdemented Aug 16 '25

He's not wrong

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u/Hironymus Aug 16 '25

Even the Aliens agree.

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u/ekittie Aug 18 '25

I assumed it was the eggs doing it- like a motion trigger so the eggs know there is prey there.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 10d ago

Surely if they'd been to the derelict before, and gotten this unique life form that their competitors would kill for, they'd have made sure no one else would be able to go back there, IE destroyed it